Meet Ellen
I’m a keynote speaker, author of Take the Elevator and The Friendship Letters, and someone who has spent twenty years walking into rooms most people never enter.
I’ve spoken in boardrooms and prison cells. Sat beside people on yachts and ER beds. Spent time with billionaires at the Ritz Carlton and held babies in Pretoria, South Africa. I gave a forty-five minute keynote in high heels five hours after an IV drip for a 104° fever, and I earned a black belt in restorative Kung Fu to heal my autoimmune.
I write and speak about two things: how to stop wasting your life on the wrong game, and how to build the relationships that make the right one worth playing.
I’ve spoken internationally, coached 8 & 9 figure entrepreneurs, and spent a lifetime turning rooms full of strangers into rooms full of friends.
If that sounds like what your audience needs… I’d love to be in your room.
On stage
I speak on clarity, relationship capital, resource allocation, and the dynamics that shape how driven people live and connect. I’ve been on stages from corporate boardrooms to Amsterdam arenas. I will not give you a generic talk. I will not read from a script. I will make people feel seen and then hand them a framework they can actually use.
See speaking topicsCredentials
TEDx talk: The Journey to Enough: Finding Your Minimum Viable Happiness, TEDxAirlie.
Who I work with
I work with high-capacity people who have built success and are starting to wonder why it doesn’t feel like enough.
I work with people who know exactly where they want to go, but can’t quite figure out why they keep getting stuck.
And I work with people who are great at business, but quietly struggling to build and keep relationships that actually last. I ask the hard questions. I hold up the mirror. I won’t let you off easy — but I also won’t let you leave without a hug.
The book
Stop grinding. There’s a smarter way up.
A framework for how to spend your three real resources — time, energy and money — on the things that build the life you actually want. Five moves, in order, plus the five High Achiever Archetypes, because your elevator needs to be designed for you.
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